Chapter 12 - Second Game (5)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 12 — Second Game (5)

Jiang Xiaoli, who was still dozing off, was awakened in an instant. She stood up and looked at Wei Qianrong. She was about to head over to see the situation but was stopped by Ding Yirong, “I’ll go, you and Wei Qianrong should get the children out of bed first. Don’t delay the timetable for the afternoon. Since there’s a schedule, we had better implement it strictly.”

Ding Yirong said as he took out the peachwood sword from his pocket, held it carefully in his hand and went to the room next door. If she remembered correctly, the class next door should be Kinderdergarten 2 and the screaming female voice was obviously Yao Qinyu.

Wei Qianrong and Jiang Xiaoli brought rows of lined-up small dumplings down to the playground to play for a while before Ding Yirong ran over in a hurry.

“A child died.” Ding Yirong’s face was a little ugly, this direction was really……. “They discovered it when they called the children to get out of bed because that child in the quilt did not move at all. So they went over to pat the child, to wake that child up. In the end……the child did not respond at all. They lifted the quilt to take a look, the eyes of that child were opened wide, almost protruding out and the child’s tongue was stretched out. There was a mark around the child’s neck and there was even foam at the corner of the child’s mouth. The child was strangled to death. But undoubtedly, no one had gone in during afternoon nap.”

“And the child’s body has a lot of pinpricks, some are new and some are old…….the strangulation marks are also very severe.” Ding Yirong sighed, “But as soon as it was 14:20, the corpse of the child disappeared.” At that time, Guan Lin and the rest got a headache about what should be done. Yang Zixuan went to find the principal and didn’t speak of it when that corpse disappeared into thin air and the items on the bed disappeared altogether with everything else.

“That child……what did the child do during the afternoon nap?” Wei Qianrong looked at the children playing on the fitness equipment and asked.

“This?……I’ll ask around about it later.” He would ask the other children and maybe he would find out.

“I’ve troubled you.”

In the afternoon, the children were neat and well-behaved. Without a doubt, the major reason why was probably because the gazes of Wei Qianrong and Jiang Xiaoli never left them, paying close attention to them. Ding Yirong found the time to go to the convenience store to buy a jar of lollipops and three bottles of water. He gave the bottles of water to Wei Qianrong and Jiang Xiaoli and then gave the children one lollipop each.

“Did you do the hint?” Jiang Xiaoli looked at Ding Yirong distributing the lollipops and suddenly asked.

Ding Yirong was startled and then laughed, “You did it too?” He didn’t keep them in suspense and went close to them after he finished distributing and said in a whisper, “You reap what you sow.”

“Eh, why is the style of your hint not the same.” Jiang Xiaoli sputtered out a sentence and also told both of their hints to him.

“For this copy, it could be because something happened to this kindergarten. It caused deaths and……I’m guessing it’s child abuse?” Jiang Xiaoli told them what she had seen and heard in the fragments of memories. Wei Qianrong nodded her head, she had seen similar memory fragments too.

“However, what I saw was a child injecting something.”

Ding Yirong spat and muttered obscenities under his breath. He said, “I saw a beast, coming to blows with……”

“So……the children turned into ghosts?”

“That principal, Teacher Wang and the other teachers are wicked people? Do we have to kill them?” Ding Yirong touched his chin, “Could this be the key to making the door appear?”

“We may not be opponents of those teachers. Those teachers are lifeless, maybe they’re zombies.” Jiang Xiaoli analysed in a low voice, “What can we do to make it through two weeks? The children will die one by one? When all the children die, would it be our turn or……if one child dies, there will be one more ghost?”

“ Let’s take care of the children first.” Wei Qianrong sighed and touched her face. She felt that her energy consumption for a day when she was watching the small dumplings with her rapt attention, was more than in class. This was only her first day on the task. “Let’s see if anything will happen tonight.”

However, even though they weren’t sure about their numerous speculations about this copy but they would find the pattern.

“Teacher!”

Jiang Xiaoli froze, then she saw the little girl she had met on the first day stomping over, with her two sheep horn braids bouncing about. As soon as Jiang Xiaoli crouched down to ask her, a lollipop was presented before her. “This is for you to eat. Can you give me a hug?”

“Teacher will not eat it, this is for you to eat.” Jiang Xiaoli broke into laughter as she said. This child actually used Ding Yirong’s candy to win over her favour. It was really too adorable. With that said, she reached out to pick up the little dumpling before she was disappointed——not to mention that she was quite heavy.

“Teacher, you are really nice.” The little girl kissed Jiang Xiaoli’s face with a ‘muah’ and she smiled until her eyes curved into crescents. However, her expression changed the next moment. She stared fearfully behind Jiang Xiaoli like she had seen some gruesome images. The atmosphere became suffocating and cold in an instant……

‘Li Hongying, don’t do anything!’

“Teacher, teacher. I’ll also give you my candy to eat. I want to kiss you too!”

“Me, me, me! Teacher, my candy is the best!”

……

The little dumpling seemed to have been inspired by something, the children who had been swinging on the swings came stomping over and surrounded the three of them. Wei Qianrong was a little at a loss on what to do but Ding Yirong was outspoken and straightforward. He put his arm around one and picked the child up, “All right. All of you are so well-behaved today, the candy is for you to eat!”

The cold aura gradually dissipated. Jiang Xiaoli did not know whether that sentence in her heart had played a role. Her hand was a little sore as she held a little dumpling. She bent over and was about to put the person down when the little dumpling got close to her ear. She said quietly, “Teacher, I will protect you!” She waved her little clenched fist as she said so, there was no deterrent at all.

“Just do as you’re told and teacher will be fine.” Jiang Xiaoli put down the little girl and rubbed the head of the little dumpling, “Run off and play. You’ll have to line up in a while to eat dinner. From now on you mustn’t run around after eating, okay?”

“Okay, I will follow teacher!” The little dumpling probably understood something different from what Jiang Xiaoli wanted to convey but the result was the same. Jiang Xiaoli didn’t say anymore. She watched the little dumpling go stomping over to the crowd of dumplings, laughing and playing around.

It was not until after dinner that they called out to the children to take a shower, wash up and go to bed. After the lights were turned off, the work for the three of them was done for the day.

“I’m tired.” Jiang Xiaoli sighed. Fortunately, she didn’t become a kindergarten teacher.

However, a kindergarten in the real world would not be the type to be in seclusion and most of them would end after four.

She returned to the apartment building with Wei Qianrong. Jiang Xiaoli opened the door and saw a piece of paper on the floor at the doorway.

It was another story. The gist was that she had to ask “Who are you” ten times in front of the mirror at midnight and she had to do it for three days in a row. “Could it be that there’ll be a task every day? Isn’t this torturing people……” She was already tired enough during the day. Jiang Xiaoli sighed and was about to put the paper on the table but that piece of paper ignited and disappeared.

What?

Jiang Xiaoli was stunned, turned around and went out of her room to look at Wei Qianrong’s room door.

“Have you received a new story page?”

“No.” Wei Qianrong reacted very quickly. She looked at the room next door and frowned, “Someone slipped you their own story? Is the protagonist the story a man or a woman?”

“A woman.” Jiang Xiaoli chuckled, “But the paper spontaneously ignited and disappeared. She must have thought that it couldn’t be transferred to anyone else.”

“I’ll be more vigilant. I’ll tell this matter to Ding Yirong tomorrow. Doing such a nasty thing……” Wei Qianrong was a little angry but didn’t speak any ruthless words in the end. Everyone was tired today and nothing happened but they didn’t have the extra energy to be angry. This story depended on blessings and misfortunes. After the individual did the story, one could get hints and clues. The individual can even see bits of fragments of what happened in the kindergarten. Yao Qinyu threw it to Jiang Xiaoli……Maybe it was because the story was unsettling and was a curse?

But then again, compared to herself who went through three copies, Jiang Xiaoli who went through her second game was very easy to bully. Besides, Jiang Xiaoli never showed any props.

“Let’s rest, we still have to get up early tomorrow. Don’t think too much about it. Don’t respond if there’s a knock on the door or the sound of footsteps at night, just pretend to sleep.”

“Mhm.” Jiang Xiaoli turned around and returned to her room. She was simply trying to confirm her conjecture. After all, she doesn’t want to think too badly about people. That Yao Qinyu had never talked to her before. Unexpectedly, she could do such a thing……She was afraid, wasn’t she afraid too? If this was really a curse and she dies because of it……Jiang Xiaoli pursed her lower lip. Wouldn’t that person feel uneasy?

It was a supernatural copy. Was she not afraid that she would turn into a ghost, find her and take revenge on her?

“If you die, you will only be eaten by ghosts and you won’t turn into a ghost.” As soon as the door closed, Li Hongying appeared. She materialised her corporeal body and her cold hand stopped Jiang Xiaoli. She bowed her head and encircled her against the door with a bang. She lowered her head to kiss Jiang Xiaoli on her cheek, her voice was also cold, “Don’t give kisses to other things.”

The cold lips kissed the place where the little dumpling had kissed.

“……Don’t make a move on me for the whole day.” Jiang Xiaoli pushed against her but she didn’t budge and receive the kiss obediently, “I’m very tired. Just move over. By the way, torment my heart less in the future. If by any chance you did it one day while I was running away, I will die with my eyes open.”

“If you are in pain, maintain an appropriate distance away from the others.” Li Hongying hugged Jiang Xiaoli. Her body gradually blurred and disappeared soon after in front of Jiang Xiaoli.

Jiang Xiaoli felt a headache. She shook her head while tidying and changing her clothes. After she sorted her clothes, she walked into the bathroom with her clothes in her arms to start taking a shower.

Alas, why was her reward a red ferocious ghost who can only torment her indiscriminately? She wasn’t of use, didn’t listen to her orders and eve said she was restricted by the game……It would be nice even if she was given a few pieces of talismans or a small peachwood sword. Would she still be afraid of ghosts? She could beat the ghosts that came to her at night.

When she was taking a shower, these kinds of ideas swirled in her mind continuously. The thought intensified when Jiang Xiaoli crawled into bed and was ready to sleep, only to be pulled into a very cold embrace by cold hands.

——This malicious spirit did not give a f*ck at all, she took liberties with her all day long and still had no sense of being a ghost.

It wasn’t summer! Sleeping together with Li Hongying was like being forced into a freezer, it was freezing!

Well. What else could she do but accept it? Jiang Xiaoli sighed silently and wrapped the little blanket around herself.

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Li Hongying did a kabedon on Jiang Xiaoli ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Muah~! There she goes with her jealousy, “No kissing other things (the dumpling aka the child)!”